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Muguthang, December 4, 2024 – Expedition Team Explores Glacial Flood Mitigation at Lhonak Valley With accelerating global warming, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates, leaving behind high-risk glacial lakes that could burst and unleash catastrophic floods. In Sikkim alone, 40 glacial lakes have been identified as high-risk by the Government of India. Can glacial floods be mitigated or their impact reduced? Seeking answers to this pressing questions, a multidisciplinary expedition team embarked on a seven-day mission to the Lhonak Valley. Their focus: to assess whether the destructive impact of glacial floods can be mitigated and explore the feasibility of innovative…
